9.3x62 for Deer?
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I know a gentlemen who used to use a 9.3x62 with NV on top for shooting foxes when he wasn't hunting big critters with it. His comments around this were, the foxes dont approve lol. Very good all round calibre and effective. Scotland will allow it for use in the UK, it really depends on your local force, some can be very jittery about these things. I have 444 Marlin for this sort of thing, not quite as devasting as 9.3x62 but its up there.
Again I'd say the Whelen wins. .357 pistol bullets fit it so you can send an expanding pistol bullet at velocities just short of where the jackets fail mid flight. Splatty on foxes - oh yes!
444 marlin uses .429 bullets so anything for 44 magnum you can use and there is a lot of light load data which still generates circa 1000ftlbs of energy.
alberta boy
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I used to load the above in a 350RM years ago for practice on the local Gopher ( ground squirrel ) population . Splatty is a good way to describe the effects . I popped a few chicken stealing Coyotes with the same load , a bit gross , but very effective .
AB
Angus 220 Naturalis are no longer offered, I managed to corner big lot of them as clearance. Ste.
Cheers, they were on the 1967spud site but showing as "available on backorder", so probably not actually "available" on backorder then.
Could be some "New" old stock hiding here & there though.
Scipio
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This one interests me a good bit, it basically seems to be to the x62 what the 358 win is to the 35 wheelan, - and if one is mainly shooting shortish distances in forrested areas and for driven hunts, does one then really need the larger case capacities, with everything that entails?
As for the 9.3x62 it is quite popular here in Denmark for larger game and driven hunts, and i think i have only heard people speak positively of it.
Exactly the same where I am. I tried for a 338-06 but was told anything more powerful than a 30-06 could not be used in the UK or anything larger than 8mm.
My neighbour (different licensing authority) has one rifle - a 300 win mag, which he loads a slow bullet for roe and a fast one for overseas. I asked about that and was told absolutely not.
A 9.3x62 sounds like a great idea to me but would be a complete non starter in my area.
I know a man who farms in Namibia and uses one for everything. He did tell me that a 308 would do 90% of the same job but he likes the extra authority.
That weight bullet has been discontinued, not sure if the same applies to loaded ammunition though, I bought up all the bullets I could find.
BigT
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I had a CZ550 in 9.3 in SA and it if I could only have one hurting rifle caliber for the rest of my life to hunt the world with it would be a 9.3
Shot from Sprinbok the Blue Wildebeest with it and a buddy shot a magnificent kudu with it too.
Hit like sledgehammer but didn’t trash the springbok. Which are not much bigger than Roe
Sako 286gr Hammerheads worked really well and Norma 325gr Oryx were space magic at bushveld range. Also loaded a SA made 230gr copper which worked like a bomb and the were the most accurate bullets I shot in a rifle that shot far more accurately than you would expect.
Shot from Sprinbok the Blue Wildebeest with it and a buddy shot a magnificent kudu with it too.
Hit like sledgehammer but didn’t trash the springbok. Which are not much bigger than Roe
Sako 286gr Hammerheads worked really well and Norma 325gr Oryx were space magic at bushveld range. Also loaded a SA made 230gr copper which worked like a bomb and the were the most accurate bullets I shot in a rifle that shot far more accurately than you would expect.
Don't buy exotic chambered guns in the uk , Unless you can make the components or know a real reliable good source
Otto Bock in 1905, would probably have been tickled to hear his offering was possibly considered "Exotic"
Essexsussex
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Bringing life back to an old thread - did you fall out with your 9.3x57? I’ve seen one I love as a rifle but of course the calibre is a bit unusual!
No I really liked it, but decided I should have a big bore again.
I now have the big bore, and it has dawned on me that a medium would have been better what with copper coming in
The 9.3x57 is a good round, especially in a 98 rather than a 96 as you can load it up a bit more.
Essexsussex
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Thank you - the inevitably cheap husqvarna has popped up and they look ace. I’ve been wanting a Mauser based husky for a while.No I really liked it, but decided I should have a big bore again.
I now have the big bore, and it has dawned on me that a medium would have been better what with copper coming in
The 9.3x57 is a good round, especially in a 98 rather than a 96 as you can load it up a bit more.
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